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A Lot Of Actors Choose Parts By The Scripts, But I Don't Trust Reading The Scripts That Much. I Try To Get Some Friends Together And Read A Script Aloud. Sometimes I Read Scripts And Record Them And Play Them Back To See If There's A Movie. It's Very Evocative; It's Like A First Cut Because You Hear 'she Walked To The Door,' And You Visualize All These Things. 'she Opens The Door' . . . Because You Read The Stage Directions, Too.

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.

I Love Work Because It Keeps Sex In Perspective. Otherwise, It Can Become A Preoccupation.

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.

I Haven't Encouraged [julia Marie Pacino] Or Discouraged Her. I Let Her Go Her Own Way. I Did Say To Her That I Thought That She Had A Real Gift, And It's A Good Idea To Know That. It's Always Good To Go With Your Gift.