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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

Al Pacino

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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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Anybody Important Writer
You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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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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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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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

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