Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
AL PACINOI found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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