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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.

Al Pacino

I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Baby Country Feeling Little Paper Poem Something Spectacular Throw Wrote
I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Award Bad Feel Good Make Pretty Win
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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Cut Direction Door Evocative First Hear Open Stage Thing Visualize Walk
I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Being Communicate Exercise Express Feel Help Human Movie Something
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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Being Celebrity Country Kind never Position Thing Unnatural Weight Word
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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Confuse Corner Deal Dope Guy Look Part Play Real Someone Street
I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Actor Age Away Fade Hear Like Old Retire Shock Soldier
People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Ask College Film Get Great Home Location Music People Person Restaurant Therapy
What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Between Person Theatre Thing
Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Exact Same Sometimes Thing
You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Agree Conversation Crazy Everybody Hear Something Tell Totally Want
I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Age Defensive Down Fall Fight Hit Learn Someone Throw Up Wrestler Young
All I am is what I’m going after.
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After All Go
That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Act Anything Else First Physical Struck Thing
I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Issue Macho never Problem Sensitive
The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Actor Athlete Become Emotional

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