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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.

Al Pacino

There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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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’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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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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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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