I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
AL PACINOLee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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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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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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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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