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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

Al Pacino

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 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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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

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