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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

Al Pacino

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Audition Only Sometimes Way
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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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 used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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