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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.

Al Pacino

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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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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 understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.

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