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Either I act or I die.

Al Pacino

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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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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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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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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Either I act or I die.

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