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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Al Pacino

I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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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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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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