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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Al Pacino

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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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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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

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