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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

Al Pacino

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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Live More Thing Work Workaday World
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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Anyway Character Hard Like Play Something
I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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Another Appeal Believe Holy Person Picture Revolution Smoke Thing Watch
There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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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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Character Feel Illusion Much Persson Play Too
A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Admire Always Comedian Myself People Think
An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Actor Ask Basically Feel Gratify Matter Natural Position Sit Something Wait
I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Film First Lot Made Movie One Time Turn
They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Afterward Feel Gold Guess Medal Now Olympic Oscar Week Win
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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Alive Anywhere Else More Street Take Theater
When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Concern Demand Different Go Movie Play
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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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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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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Easy Fame Negativity Overtaken Quite Respond Success Type
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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Contribute Exercise Feel Find Mean Role Something Though Way
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Ability Detect Exceed Fraud Manufacture Reality Truth
The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Build Camera Capture Face Movie Soul

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