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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.

Al Pacino

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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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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 love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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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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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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