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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

I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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.

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