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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

Al Pacino

That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

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