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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.

Al Pacino

When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand 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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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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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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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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 believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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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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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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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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