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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

Al Pacino

It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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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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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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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

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