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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.

Al Pacino

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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Actor Air Always Big Certain Come Deal Era Movie
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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Act Ever First Forty Physical Shock Terrible Think Thnk Young
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 did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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Always Better Gift Good Idea Know Real Say
If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Contribute Exercise Feel Find Mean Role Something Though Way
That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Always Body Felt Humour Kind Like Person Stuff
We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Ago Beach Coffee Hundred Ocean People Remember Saw Scarface
I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Concern Demand Different Go Movie Play
There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Close Closer Enemy Father Friend Keep Many Room Taught Thing
To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Fact Love Man Matter Truly Woman
I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Always Been Bit Came Kind Squeamish Thing
I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Cook First Friend Important Love Very Want Women
Either I act or I die.
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Act Die Either
I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Along Artist Great Paint People Remind Sense Something

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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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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