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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

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In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

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Vanity: my favorite sin.

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Pretty soon I'll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure. The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.

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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.

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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

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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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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

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All I am is what I'm going after.

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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

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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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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story, the story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I'm struggling with - my own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.

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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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When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

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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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