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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

Al Pacino

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Maid Out Paper Scrap Threw
I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Anything Opinion Personal Life
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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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Confuse Corner Deal Dope Guy Look Part Play Real Someone Street

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