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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.

Al Pacino

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Better Bug Little People Than Thing Upset You
People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Ask College Film Get Great Home Location Music People Person Restaurant Therapy
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Appellate Atom Cathedral Connect Desire Dream Ego Fiber Grease Human Impulse Optical Point Sharpen Spilt
And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Back Cut First Later Listen Movie Play Rough Sort
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
The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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Deal Machine Movie Much Orchestrate Play Source Wire Word
It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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Learn Much People Use Way Worry
I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Loud Movie Play Read Record Script Some Together
You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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After Anybody Film Less Movie Onstage Over Together Until You
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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Artist Interest Play Thing Vision Yet
I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Actor Dream Journalist Real Stuff Theatre Tomorrow
I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Actor Heart Help Hollywood Pool Shape Star Swim
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
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
My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Almost Career Early Movie Overwhelm Real Stardom
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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Audience Learn Make See Something Try

When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.

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