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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.

Al Pacino

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Actor Athlete Emotional Felt Life Painful Personal Suffer
You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Agree Conversation Crazy Everybody Hear Something Tell Totally Want
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
You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Come Finally Friend Point Women
I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Adjust How Marvelous People Wonder Would
I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Issue Macho never Problem Sensitive
I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Actor Disappointment Expect Great Opportunity Think Too
I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Always Especially Found Movie Much Want Way Younger
If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Empathize Identify People Therefore Thing Understand
Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Favorite Sin Vanity
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 didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Day Everything Home Life Picture Problem Really Remember Say Shed
I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Become Keep Love Otherwise Perspective Preoccupation Sex Work
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
You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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Approach Hard Maintain Neutral Try Work Yourself

The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.

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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.

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