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"As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive."

"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."

"You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap."

"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."

"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."
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"It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press."

"My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election."

"Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet."

"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."

"Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics."

"If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character."
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