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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.

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 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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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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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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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.

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