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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

Al Pacino

What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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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 only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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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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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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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