It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
AL PACINOYou could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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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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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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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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