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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

I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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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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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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