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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.

Al Pacino

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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Doubt Event Life Self Unwelcome
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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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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My 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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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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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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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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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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