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We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean. I thought, what's going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director, Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.

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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

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Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

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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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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

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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.

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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'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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A lot of acting is private time.

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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification.

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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 I am is what I'm going after.

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You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

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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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I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.

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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

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I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

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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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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

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