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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.

Al Pacino

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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Close Closer Enemy Father Friend Keep Many Room Taught Thing
The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Audition Only Sometimes Way
The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Actor Director Filmmaker Journey Person Play Story Struggle
I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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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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Failure Kind Misunderstood Other Yourself

When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.

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