I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
AL PACINOBrian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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