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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.

Al Pacino

Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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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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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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