I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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 love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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 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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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