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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.

Al Pacino

I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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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 believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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 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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