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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.

Al Pacino

I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Exhaust Found Lot Out Took Way
I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Loud Movie Play Read Record Script Some Together
Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Cash Help Himself Illness Talk Writer
It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Cut Direction Door Evocative First Hear Open Stage Thing Visualize Walk
I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
AL PACINO

Ask Pause Probably Same Strength Thing
I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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Certainly Director Editor Fourty Language Make Movie Myself Pick Second Stuff Write Year
When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
AL PACINO

Actor All Day Found Keep Later Lighter Serious Try Younger
Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Anybody Important Writer
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Accept Art High Level Perform Scholastic School
The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Actor Athlete Become Emotional
What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
AL PACINO

Failure Kind Misunderstood Other Yourself
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Actor Home Mother Movie Take Work
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 don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Bodyguard Bronx Need South
My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Come Euthanasia Something Weakness Wish
They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
AL PACINO

Cost Dreams Make Nothing Priceless Real

When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.

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