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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.

Al Pacino

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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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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 understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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