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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

Al Pacino

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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After Dad Grandfather Maternal Mother Raise Real War
It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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A lot of acting is private time.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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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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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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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