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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?

Al Pacino

I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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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