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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

Al Pacino

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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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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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

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