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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.

Al Pacino

There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Favourite Sin Vanity
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 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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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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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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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