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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Al Pacino

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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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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