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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

Al Pacino

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Baseball Enough Good Kid Natural Player Want
People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Ask College Film Get Great Home Location Music People Person Restaurant Therapy
There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Different Endure Gom Through Love Stage
Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Anybody Important Writer
If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Build Camera Capture Face Movie Soul
I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Look Swallow Taste Touch
I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Always Certain Grew Relationship Something Want Work
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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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Believe Comedy Comic Myself People Saw Stand Start Tell Them Up
When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Ask Autograph Country Old People Restaurant Table Talk Under Went Year
I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

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