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

Al Pacino

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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 perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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.
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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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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