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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 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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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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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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