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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.

Al Pacino

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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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 own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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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’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Either I act or I die.
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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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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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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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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.

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