The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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“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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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