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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.

Al Pacino

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 personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Honesty People Reality Sense Strong

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