Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
AL PACINOI learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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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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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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