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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.

Al Pacino

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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Always Body Felt Humour Kind Like Person Stuff
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Actor Ever Gull Made One Play Sea Thing Want
I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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Director Get Go Shore Some Stood Table Thought Wash Whale
I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Believe Country Go Know Large Majority Part People Story Whole
I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Always Especially Found Movie Much Want Way Younger
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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Accept Art High Level Perform Scholastic School
The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Act Ever First Forty Physical Shock Terrible Think Thnk Young
It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Anyway Character Hard Like Play Something
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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Cause Effect Grew Person Powerful Rebel Relate Thing
Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Humor Juxtapose Liberation Mind Strike Thing Way World
When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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Being Do Home Look Love Remember Sacrifice Time
There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Concentration Happy No Only
I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Act Always Comedy Country Felt Help More Movie Much Style
If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Fix Glow Go Keep Something Work
I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Every Fifty Poem Probably Writing Year
Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Great Maybe Script Some Something Television

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