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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.

Al Pacino

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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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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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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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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