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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

Al Pacino

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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

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