People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
AL PACINOThere has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Either I act or I die.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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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