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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”

Al Pacino

A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Actor Choose Cut Door Lot Much Party Read Script
I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Afterward Express Question Read Talk Therapeutic Time
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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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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[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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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