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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.

Al Pacino

I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.

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