Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
AL PACINOI’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 understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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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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