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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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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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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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Favourite Sin Vanity
Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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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’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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