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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

Al Pacino

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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Interest Interview Much Part Want Well
You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Know Mouth never Open Shot Until
I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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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’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

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