If You Can Identify With People, You

I Used To Think Of Myself As A Comedian. I've Always Admired Comedians. Their Minds, The Way In Which They Se The World Is So Striking, The Way They Juxtapose Things, The Way They Can See Humor In People. There's A Liberation In That.

We Were Doing Scarface Many Years Ago...and I Remember Having My Coffee And Looking At The Beach, The Surf, And I Saw A Hundred People Looking Out Into The Ocean. I Thought, What's Going On? Did Some Whale Get Washed Up To Shore? So I Stood Up On The Table To See What It Was, And It Was The Director, Brian De Palma, Standing There Alone By The Surf And They Were All Waiting For Him. And I Never Forgot That Because It Represented To Me What A Director Is, What A Director Does.

One Of The Things That Made Me Want To Be An Actor More Than Ever Was Seeing A Chekhov Play, "the Sea Gull," When Was 14 In The Bronx.

I Turned Down A Lot Of Films Before I Made My First One. I Knew That It Was Time For Me To Get Into Movies.

When I Was Younger, There Was The Sex Thing. That's Par For The Course.when You're A Movie Star, It Went With It. It's A Kind Of Rite Of Passage, Socially.