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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.

Al Pacino

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Alive Anywhere Else More Street Take Theater
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 used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Another Beyond Find Genuflect Higher Obe Pedestal Use Used Way Woman
I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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Certainly Director Editor Fourty Language Make Movie Myself Pick Second Stuff Write Year
Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Favorite Sin Vanity
I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Discourage Encourage Idea Own Real Way
I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Baseball Enough Good Kid Natural Player Want
I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Bodyguard Bronx Need South
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
Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Attach Encourage Interest Project Studio
I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Ask Pause Probably Same Strength Thing
Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Exact Same Sometimes Thing
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
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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Boy Bullet Fast Go Head Hell Over Sense Wake
I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Found Kind Off Out Put Sometimes Temperamental
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 did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.

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