Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
AL PACINOI was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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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 love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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