After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
AL PACINOI like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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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 don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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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 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 used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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