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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

Al Pacino

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Actor Athlete Emotional Felt Life Painful Personal Suffer
Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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 went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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 do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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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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