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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.

Al Pacino

It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Cut Direction Door Evocative First Hear Open Stage Thing Visualize Walk
Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Anodynes Day Help Life Park Realize Stuff Through Want
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
I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Failure Kind Misunderstood Other Yourself
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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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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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Easy Eye Fool Hard Heart
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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Age Artist Day Hate One Painter Question
All I am is what I’m going after.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.

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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.

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