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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.

Al Pacino

I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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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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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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 love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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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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