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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

Al Pacino

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
Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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Age Change Everything Feeling Part Play Role Ten Want Year
I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Happy Much Perform Turn Very
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
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
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
Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Inspirational Person Play Scarface Violent
At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Actor Air Flip Later Look Nowhere Out Point Robe Start Wear
Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Anything Opinion Personal Life
Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Audience Challenge Make Opportunity Play Possible Something Uncomfortable
I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Character Everything Get Pick Pool Pursue Something Wrong
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 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
I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Bath Buddle Call Head Look Meal Park Solve Stuff Walk
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
I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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Anything Happen Nothing Salacious Trust Way Written

I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

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