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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.

Al Pacino

You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Come Finally Friend Point Women
And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Back Cut First Later Listen Movie Play Rough Sort
[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Autobiographical Guess House Kid Oscar Sense Stuff
I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Back Certain Comfortable Control Film Hold More Play Sense
I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Always Bad Carpet Day Meet Other People Red Thought
I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Interest Interview Much Part Want Well
Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Attach Encourage Interest Project Studio
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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Easy Fame Negativity Overtaken Quite Respond Success Type
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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Instead Month People Personally Play Think Want Week Work
Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Humor Juxtapose Liberation Mind Strike Thing Way World
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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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Angel Better Devil Know Sometimes
A lot of acting is private time.
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Act Lot Private Time
The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Ball Give Only Order Thing World
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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All Career Cop Ealy Flee People Remember Run
You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Actor Boil Insecurity Keep Need Pot Retirement Some Start Thin Think

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