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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.

Al Pacino

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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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.

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