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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.

Al Pacino

Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Close Grandfather Kind Like People Relationship
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 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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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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