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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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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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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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