There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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