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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

Al Pacino

I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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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 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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

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