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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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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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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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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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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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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