It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
AL PACINO[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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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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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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