When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINOWe live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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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[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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