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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.

Al Pacino

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 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
You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Alone Book Got never
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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Believe Comedy Comic Myself People Saw Stand Start Tell Them Up
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
It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Easy Eye Fool Hard Heart
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
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
Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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Actor Author Feeling Joy Person Read Reason Stay
A lot of acting is private time.
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Act Lot Private Time
So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Always Certain Grew Relationship Something Want Work
I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Back Certain Comfortable Control Film Hold More Play Sense
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Actor Between Buy Difference Early Morning Order Painter Somebody Spend Time Waiting Watch
I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Confuse Corner Deal Dope Guy Look Part Play Real Someone Street
After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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After Close Hell One Real Slomaybe Thing Think Use
You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Actor Boil Insecurity Keep Need Pot Retirement Some Start Thin Think
You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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Approach Hard Maintain Neutral Try Work Yourself
I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Ask Pause Probably Same Strength Thing
I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Always Country Display Emotion Have Person Temperament Tradition Violent
I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Baseball Enough Good Kid Natural Player Want
I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Extent Feeling Prefer Show Some Thought Time
It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Actor Become Get Home Influence Out Part
When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Act Back Camera Give Keep never Talk When
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 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
Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Biochemical Chocolate Different Eat Love Overrate Quantity
What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Do Else Endure Got Instrument Something Talent

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