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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

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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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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.

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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

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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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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'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

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What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

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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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It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

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I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

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A lot of acting is private time.

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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.

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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

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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. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

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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 not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

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