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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.

Al Pacino

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 don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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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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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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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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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Either I act or I die.
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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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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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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.

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