"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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"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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"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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"Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you."
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"I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting."
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"Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'"
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"If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that."
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"I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft."
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"Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it."
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"It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind."
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"When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there."
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"When I was doing 'Scarface,' I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home."
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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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"There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once."
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"I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies."
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"Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life."
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"I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself."
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"Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured."
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"I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid."
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"The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out."
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