The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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