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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.

Al Pacino

I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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Easy Fame Negativity Overtaken Quite Respond Success Type
I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Come Destroy Longer Unconcious
Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Afterward Express Question Read Talk Therapeutic Time
When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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Actor All Day Found Keep Later Lighter Serious Try Younger
So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Always Certain Grew Relationship Something Want Work
It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Close Compromise Down Help Line Memoir Read Sense Some Write
“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Destroy Make Out Paint Something Soon Unconscious
At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Audition Career Children Deal Humble Other Point Rejection Thing
Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Act Do Older Realize Really Something Until
The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Before Fall Fruit Ready Shake Tree

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