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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

Al Pacino

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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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 care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Audition Only Sometimes Way
I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Act Always Even Lie Truth
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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Bad Big Payday Script Show
Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Challenge Either Heal Individual Team
To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Country Obvious Really Shoulder Somebody Something Strap Throw
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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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Interest Interview Much Part Want Well
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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Audience Challenge Make Opportunity Play Possible Something Uncomfortable
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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