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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

Al Pacino

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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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[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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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