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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.

Al Pacino

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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Close Grandfather Kind Like People Relationship
My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Grandfather Joy Kind Life Provider Work
I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Controversy Feel Go Person Provoke Risk Something Take Wherever
In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Bit Country Dose Everybody Except Full Half Little Mostly
The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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Deal Machine Movie Much Orchestrate Play Source Wire Word
My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Autobiography Celebrity Commitment Kind Life Own Term Thing
Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Anything Opinion Personal Life
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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Instead Month People Personally Play Think Want Week Work
Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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After Dad Grandfather Maternal Mother Raise Real War
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Audition Only Sometimes Way
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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Around Believe Boring Funny Get Insufferbly Into Make Movie People Waiting
The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Actor Director Filmmaker Journey Person Play Story Struggle
I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Always Bad Carpet Day Meet Other People Red Thought
Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Anybody Care Do Risk Take
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.”
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Dishonest Hey Natural Time Way Women
Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Anybody Important Writer

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