I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
AL PACINOIs it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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