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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

Al Pacino

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

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