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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.

Al Pacino

If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.

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