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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

Al Pacino

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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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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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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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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 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’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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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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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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