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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.

Al Pacino

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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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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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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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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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.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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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 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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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