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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.

Al Pacino

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Character Part Play Relative Responsibility Script
Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Cash Help Himself Illness Talk Writer
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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Another Appeal Believe Holy Person Picture Revolution Smoke Thing Watch
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Back Bring Earth Like Literal Magnet Stage Thing
I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Fast Goe Interest Nowadays Play Simply Television Think Too
Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Favorite Sin Vanity
I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Ask Pause Probably Same Strength Thing
Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Alone Director Forgot Represent Stand Surf Wait
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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Contribute Exercise Feel Find Mean Role Something Though Way
Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Act Actor Do Great See Somebody Tradition
Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Close Grandfather Kind Like People Relationship
So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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Audience Each Extraordinary Give Other Sense Thing Turf Wild
You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Boy Bullet Fast Go Head Hell Over Sense Wake
Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Happy Much Perform Turn Very
[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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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.

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