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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.

Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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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’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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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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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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