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.
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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.
The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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.
If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
A lot of acting is private time.
Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.
Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies. I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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.