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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.

Al Pacino

I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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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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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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