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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.

Al Pacino

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
There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Actor Do Get Healthy Out Repeat Something Young
It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Escape Happen Responsibility Way
I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Adjust How Marvelous People Wonder Would
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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Almost Become Get Know Mode Painter Script Work
Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Challenge Either Heal Individual Team
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
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
The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Artist Interest Play Thing Vision Yet
I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Artist Play Temperament Think
Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Cash Help Himself Illness Talk Writer
I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Director Identification More Much Rebell Understand Want Youngster
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Author Be Interest Movie Role Script Would
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Actor Ever Gull Made One Play Sea Thing Want
The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Ask Kingdom never Thing Whole
When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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Another Audition Change Mean Opportunity Out Stuff Try Younger

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