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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.

Al Pacino

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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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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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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