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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

Al Pacino

I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Good Happen Like Live Negative People Speak Very Way Young
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
There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Concentration Happy No Only
Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Favorite Sin Vanity
I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Book Fifteen Knew Least Natural Twenty Want Year
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
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
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
Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Alone Director Forgot Represent Stand Surf Wait
Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Career Do Feel Forget Go Happen Line Someplace Thing Vision Work
I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Character Everything Get Pick Pool Pursue Something Wrong
I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Bodyguard Bronx Need South
I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Loud Movie Play Read Record Script Some Together
I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Along Artist Great Paint People Remind Sense Something
I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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