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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

Al Pacino

Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Almost Become Get Know Mode Painter Script Work
You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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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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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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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

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