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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.

Al Pacino

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Ask College Film Get Great Home Location Music People Person Restaurant Therapy
I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Actor Heart Help Hollywood Pool Shape Star Swim
A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Actor Choose Cut Door Lot Much Party Read Script
Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Audience Challenge Make Opportunity Play Possible Something Uncomfortable
It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Anyway Character Hard Like Play Something
You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Come Finally Friend Point Women
Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Career Do Feel Forget Go Happen Line Someplace Thing Vision Work
It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Business Personal Strict
I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Good Happen Like Live Negative People Speak Very Way Young
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.
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Director Get Go Shore Some Stood Table Thought Wash Whale
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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Actors Character Everything Perceive Play Relation Seen Thing World
I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Believe Day Go One Time Today
I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Being Country Emotion Guess Outgoing Tradition
You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Boy Bullet Fast Go Head Hell Over Sense Wake
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.
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Actor Ever Gull Made One Play Sea Thing Want
What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Do Else Endure Got Instrument Something Talent

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