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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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