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

Al Pacino

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
I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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Actors Character Everything Perceive Play Relation Seen Thing World
The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Ask Kingdom never Thing Whole
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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Afterward Express Question Read Talk Therapeutic Time
Without coffee something’s missing
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Coffee Miss Something
Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Anybody Important Writer
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
There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Honesty People Reality Sense Strong
After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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After Close Hell One Real Slomaybe Thing Think Use
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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Always Believe Character Express Film Humanity More Opportunity Person Really Something Try Write
Either I act or I die.
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Act Die Either
There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Concentration Happy No Only
I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Always Cope Flee Gone Run Career Theatre Wa
I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Artist Play Temperament 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’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Actor More Often Said Shy Two Type

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