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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

Al Pacino

You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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After Anybody Film Less Movie Onstage Over Together Until You
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Back Bring Earth Like Literal Magnet Stage Thing
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Actor Athlete Emotional Felt Life Painful Personal Suffer
Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Author Bit Bore Education Learn Play School
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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Always Believe Character Express Film Humanity More Opportunity Person Really Something Try Write
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
Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Biochemical Chocolate Different Eat Love Overrate Quantity
The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Act All Care Do Repeat Result Risk Think Yourself
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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Book Coast College East Lot Person Poetry Present Show Tour Write Year
Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Exact Same Sometimes Thing
Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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Cause Effect Grew Person Powerful Rebel Relate Thing
[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
It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Actor Become Influence Tremendous
To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Country Obvious Really Shoulder Somebody Something Strap Throw
I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Ebnergy Fairty Go Happu Kid Kind Life With
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

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