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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.

Al Pacino

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 would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Concern Demand Different Go Movie Play
I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Better Done Get Much Naturally Shy Think
I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Another Beyond Find Genuflect Higher Obe Pedestal Use Used Way Woman
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 was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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Easy Fame Negativity Overtaken Quite Respond Success Type
It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Actor Become Influence Tremendous
I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Found Kind Off Out Put Sometimes Temperamental
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
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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After Anybody Film Less Movie Onstage Over Together Until You
It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Act Do Older Realize Really Something Until
I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Maid Out Paper Scrap Threw
It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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Blunt Edge Ever Heal Merciful Slight Time Turn Way Wound
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
A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Desire Dessert Dollop Kiss Lusty Passion Savor Serve
I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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Assemble Care Fact Gun Learn Scent Woman

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