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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.

Al Pacino

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Better Bug Little People Than Thing Upset You
When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Ask Autograph Country Old People Restaurant Table Talk Under Went Year
I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Along Artist Great Paint People Remind Sense Something
I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Admire Always Comedian Myself People Think
You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Almost Costly Even Marriage Marry Though
I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Believe Country Go Know Large Majority Part People Story Whole
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
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Different Dream Imagine Realize Sometimes Start Thing Vision Word World
I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Discourage Encourage Idea Own Real Way
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 turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Film First Lot Made Movie One Time Turn
I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Good Happen Like Live Negative People Speak Very Way Young
People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Ask College Film Get Great Home Location Music People Person Restaurant Therapy
I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Controversy Feel Go Person Provoke Risk Something Take Wherever
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
I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Afterward Feel Gold Guess Medal Now Olympic Oscar Week Win

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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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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