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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
I don't ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention.
I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.
You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.
Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
I'm always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it.
I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.
[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?
I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.
It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.
I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.
It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.
That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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.
They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.
You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.
I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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.
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.
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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.
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.