I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
AL PACINOThere 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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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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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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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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