Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
AL PACINOIt had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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