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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.

Al Pacino

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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