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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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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Great Happen Play Read Some Something Talk Writer
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Easy Eye Fool Hard Heart
If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Age Artist Day Hate One Painter Question
I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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Care Drug Most Needle never People Saw
The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Dishonest Hey Natural Time Way Women
I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Cook First Friend Important Love Very Want Women
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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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Actor All Day Found Keep Later Lighter Serious Try Younger
I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Along Artist Great Paint People Remind Sense Something
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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Back Bring Earth Like Literal Magnet Stage Thing

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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