I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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 was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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