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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.

Al Pacino

The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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