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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.

Al Pacino

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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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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 don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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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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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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