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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.

Al Pacino

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.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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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.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.

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