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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.

Al Pacino

The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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