I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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