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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.

Al Pacino

A lot of acting is private time.
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Act Lot Private Time
Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Favorite Sin Vanity
I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Day Everything Home Life Picture Problem Really Remember Say Shed
What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Failure Kind Misunderstood Other Yourself
The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Act Demand Different Experience More Stage Through
So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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Audience Each Extraordinary Give Other Sense Thing Turf Wild
They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Body Breath Die Know Last Leaver Name Once Person Say Twice
Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Alone Director Forgot Represent Stand Surf Wait
On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Give Gonna Lose Man Point Sunday Win
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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Another Audition Change Mean Opportunity Out Stuff Try Younger
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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Destroy Make Out Paint Something Soon Unconscious
I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Afterward Feel Gold Guess Medal Now Olympic Oscar Week Win
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Actor Home Mother Movie Take Work
I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Author Certain Do Feel Way
Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Act Actor Do Great See Somebody Tradition
I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Bodyguard Bronx Need South
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
Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Cash Help Himself Illness Talk Writer
Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Exact Same Sometimes Thing
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
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Actor Between Buy Difference Early Morning Order Painter Somebody Spend Time Waiting Watch
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Audition Only Sometimes Way
Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Actor Big Healthy Learn Repeat Thin Think Trade
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 take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Done Get Go Great Guy Magic Out Thing
Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Author Bit Bore Education Learn Play School
Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Able Actor Always Become Destroy Famous Get Interpret Necessary Outsider

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