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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.

Al Pacino

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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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Enjoy Frank Help Instance Like Play Real Script Serpico
I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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