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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.

Al Pacino

They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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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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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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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 didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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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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