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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

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What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

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

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

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

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I probably write a poem every 50 years.

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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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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

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I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

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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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sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know

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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

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I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.

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

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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

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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.

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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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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

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