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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.

Al Pacino

It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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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 believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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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.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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