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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.

Al Pacino

Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Close Grandfather Kind Like People Relationship
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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Interweavemoscar Journey Sort Story Take Thing Wide
“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Anything Beyond Comprehend Level Mind Person Think
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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Alive Come Director Great Pace Scene Stag Understand Way
I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Discourage Encourage Idea Own Real Way
In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Bit Country Dose Everybody Except Full Half Little Mostly
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
When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Course Kind Kindm Ride Movie Pair Passage Sex Star Think Younger
You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Almost Costly Even Marriage Marry Though
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
Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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All Career Cop Ealy Flee People Remember Run
Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Children Exposure Name Pretty Soon Start Worry
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
So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Being Close Do Everything Kid Next Them
When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Ask Autograph Country Old People Restaurant Table Talk Under Went Year
The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Before Fall Fruit Ready Shake Tree

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