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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

Al Pacino

What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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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’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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