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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’

Al Pacino

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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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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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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