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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.

Al Pacino

I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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 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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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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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