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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

Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Children Exposure Name Pretty Soon Start Worry
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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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Actor Become Get Home Influence Out Part
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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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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Always Catch Do Sleep Try

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