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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.

Al Pacino

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.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.

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