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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.

Al Pacino

We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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Lee 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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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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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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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