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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

Al Pacino

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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.
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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 had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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