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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

Al Pacino

I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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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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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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 something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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