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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

Al Pacino

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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Concentration Happy No Only
All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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