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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.

Al Pacino

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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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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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 only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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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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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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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