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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.

Al Pacino

“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Anything Beyond Comprehend Level Mind Person Think
I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Cope First Have Language Learn Limelight Only Shy Thrust
What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Between Person Theatre Thing
[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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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Always Early Even Fail Failure Felt Kind Misunderstood On
Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Great Maybe Script Some Something Television
Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Cash Help Himself Illness Talk Writer
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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Analyse Colossally Fail Failure Kind Learn Movie Something
The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Do Go Life Made Movie Need Reason Vary Way Work
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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Come Euthanasia Something Weakness Wish
I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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Anything Character Feel Like Made Mistake Regret

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