I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
AL PACINOI do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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 don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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.
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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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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