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Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

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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.

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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

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I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. 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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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

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I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

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It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.

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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

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It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

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"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. 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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.

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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. 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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I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

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