Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Brian 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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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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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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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