What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINOMy dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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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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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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