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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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The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.

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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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It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

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I believe in one day at a time; you've got TODAY, that's what you' ve got.

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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

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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 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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

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Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

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Either I act or I die.

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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

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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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It's not personal, it's strictly business

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At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

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It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

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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.

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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.

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