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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

Al Pacino

I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Actor Age Away Fade Hear Like Old Retire Shock Soldier
You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Audition Got Opportunity Thing Think
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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Humor Juxtapose Liberation Mind Strike Thing Way World
I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Interest Interview Much Part Want Well
I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Almost Become Get Know Mode Painter Script Work
I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Enjoy Frank Help Instance Like Play Real Script Serpico
The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Ask Kingdom never Thing Whole
You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Done Get Go Great Guy Magic Out Thing
That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Act Anything Else First Physical Struck Thing
Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Corporation Each Fight Forget Other People Sometimes
I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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Actor Hope Intend Movie Perception Star
I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Adjust How Marvelous People Wonder Would
I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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Ask Change Daughter Name Oldest Once School Thought
[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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Audience Large Much Presentation Satisfy Vision World
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

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