Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
Without coffee something’s missing
When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids. So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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.
I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
