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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.

Al Pacino

So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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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 you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.

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