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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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