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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.

Al Pacino

Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Great Maybe Script Some Something Television
I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Cost Dreams Make Nothing Priceless Real
I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Cook First Friend Important Love Very Want Women
I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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Care Drug Most Needle never People Saw
I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Bath Buddle Call Head Look Meal Park Solve Stuff Walk
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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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Audience Challenge Make Opportunity Play Possible Something Uncomfortable
It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Act Do Older Realize Really Something Until
I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.

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