I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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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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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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