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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 mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."

"I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff."
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"And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is."

"I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director."

"For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen."

"Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that."

"I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries."

"First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds."

"Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money."
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