My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
AL PACINO“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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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 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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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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 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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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