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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.

Al Pacino

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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 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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