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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

Al Pacino

I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

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