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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

Al Pacino

There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Actor Do Get Healthy Out Repeat Something Young
When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Course Kind Kindm Ride Movie Pair Passage Sex Star Think Younger
You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Cash Puttin Register Say Sudden Talk
On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Give Gonna Lose Man Point Sunday Win
Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Able Actor Always Become Destroy Famous Get Interpret Necessary Outsider
I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Actor Dream Journalist Real Stuff Theatre Tomorrow
I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Good Happen Like Live Negative People Speak Very Way Young
They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Cost Dreams Make Nothing Priceless Real
The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Build Camera Capture Face Movie Soul
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
“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Anything Beyond Comprehend Level Mind Person Think
Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Alone Director Forgot Represent Stand Surf Wait
The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Ball Give Only Order Thing World
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
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Character Part Play Relative Responsibility Script
I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Being Country Emotion Guess Outgoing Tradition

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