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- Pause
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- Nov 07, 2020
My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Vanity is my favourite sin.
- Bronx
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
- Plays
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
- Fleeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. 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.
- Coppola
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- Nov 07, 2020
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020