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I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

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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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It's not personal, it's strictly business

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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

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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. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

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After looking at Salomaybe, I don't know who the hell the real me is. I think it's closest now to the real me because for one thing, I'm used to this.

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

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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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In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

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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. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "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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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

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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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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

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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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When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

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