"You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing."
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"Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene."
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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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"You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is."
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"I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets."
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"Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy."
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"I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type."
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"What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?"
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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. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them."
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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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"I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road."
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"I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one."
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"When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor."
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"Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday."
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"Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer."
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"One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx."
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"I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part."
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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. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it."
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"I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously."
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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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