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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.

Al Pacino

If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Age Artist Day Hate One Painter Question
Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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After Dad Grandfather Maternal Mother Raise Real War
What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Failure Kind Misunderstood Other Yourself
You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Agree Conversation Crazy Everybody Hear Something Tell Totally Want
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Appellate Atom Cathedral Connect Desire Dream Ego Fiber Grease Human Impulse Optical Point Sharpen Spilt
I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Being Communicate Exercise Express Feel Help Human Movie Something
They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Cost Dreams Make Nothing Priceless Real
Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Act Actor Do Great See Somebody Tradition
That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Always Body Felt Humour Kind Like Person Stuff
I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Come Destroy Longer Unconcious
Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Favourite Sin Vanity
It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Anyway Character Hard Like Play Something
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Alive Anywhere Else More Street Take Theater
They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Body Breath Die Know Last Leaver Name Once Person Say Twice
I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Cook First Friend Important Love Very Want Women
Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Around Do Dub Finally Line Loop Over Wait

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.

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