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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.

Al Pacino

There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Honesty People Reality Sense Strong
Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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Feel Film Opportunity Say Something Thing
It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Cut Direction Door Evocative First Hear Open Stage Thing Visualize Walk
The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Better Bug Little People Than Thing Upset You
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
There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Couple Especial Live Made Married Mistake Once Think Time
My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Autobiography Celebrity Commitment Kind Life Own Term Thing
I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Age Defensive Down Fall Fight Hit Learn Someone Throw Up Wrestler Young
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
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
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
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Accept Art High Level Perform Scholastic School
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
You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Boy Bullet Fast Go Head Hell Over Sense Wake
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 was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Actor Age Away Fade Hear Like Old Retire Shock Soldier

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