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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.

Al Pacino

I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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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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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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