“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.”

“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.

Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.

I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.

I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.

I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.

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.

I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

A lot of acting is private time.

It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.

In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.

I don’t particularly like recording studios, they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived. We just don’t want to be bound to a studio to who we’d have to pay untold sums to.

Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I’m sitting in the studio, a mix isn’t done till I feel it in my gut.

I go to the club just like a normal person. I might go to the studio, but I go everywhere like a normal person would.

I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

For me, music comes naturally. I always just get in the studio and I feel like, wow, this is my heaven.

You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

I usually mug up my Telugu dialogues much before going to the sets every day.