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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.

Al Pacino

[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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Great Group Kid Ocean Opportunity Thirteen Work
There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Honesty People Reality Sense Strong
When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Great Happen Play Read Some Something Talk Writer
I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Enjoy Frank Help Instance Like Play Real Script Serpico
Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Better Bit Little Man Reputation Worse
Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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All Career Cop Ealy Flee People Remember Run
We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Anodynes Day Help Life Park Realize Stuff Through Want
We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Ago Beach Coffee Hundred Ocean People Remember Saw Scarface
Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Bad Big Payday Script Show
We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Live More Thing Work Workaday World
I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Confuse Corner Deal Dope Guy Look Part Play Real Someone Street
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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Believe Comedy Comic Myself People Saw Stand Start Tell Them Up
I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Back Certain Comfortable Control Film Hold More Play Sense
Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Careful Friend Judge Man Most People
It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Anyway Character Hard Like Play Something
It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Actor Become Influence Tremendous

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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