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On one show before a live audience, I had to look out the door and call for Will Smith to come in. The audience couldn't see him, but there he was with his naked butt staring me in the face. I didn't normally hang out with twenty-something practical jokers, so sometimes he was a little much.

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I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.

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Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

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You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.

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I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.

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Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

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You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art is great in your 20s, but it's not so great at 35. It has to be absolute love. You can't worry about being a movie star or anything else. Just love. That's it.

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There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is somehow not as clear in a lot of American schools.

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Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

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What you find in the theatre is that if you're good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that - whoever you are.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 27th, 1948

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