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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

Al Pacino

I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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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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[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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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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