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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

Al Pacino

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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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[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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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 was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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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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