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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

Al Pacino

You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Agree Conversation Crazy Everybody Hear Something Tell Totally Want
I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Extent Feeling Prefer Show Some Thought Time
You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Actor Boil Insecurity Keep Need Pot Retirement Some Start Thin Think
I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Back Certain Comfortable Control Film Hold More Play Sense
The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Count Doubt Instead Mind Month Personally Play Think Week
Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Audience Learn Make See Something Try
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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Actor Dream Journalist Real Stuff Theatre Tomorrow
They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Academy Award Bad Feel Good Made Pretty
We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Live More Thing Work Workaday World
Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Always Early Even Fail Failure Felt Kind Misunderstood On
I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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Bisexual Concept Exactly Fear Gay Grasp Hatred Inspirational Lesbian Motivational Understand
The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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[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
The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Actor Director Filmmaker Journey Person Play Story Struggle
It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Business Personal Strict
I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Deep Long People Period Relationship Time

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