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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.

Al Pacino

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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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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