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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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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.
Al Pacino
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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.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Off-Off-Broadway is absolutely necessary. It doesn't have to be sanctioned by the state, subsidized or anything. The plank and the passion is what it's about.
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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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I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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My movies are always being played on television, I'm very well known and all that stuff - I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it's wonderful. But now I'm at a point where...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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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I'm always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it.
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In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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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, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."
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I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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