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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate

Al Pacino

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
Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Alter Always Equal Importance Issue Onstage Problem Sensibility Sensitive Women Working
Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Challenge Either Heal Individual Team
Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Bad Big Payday Script Show
I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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All Comedy Help Movie Put
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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Cut Direction Door Evocative First Hear Open Stage Thing Visualize Walk
Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Able Actor Always Become Destroy Famous Get Interpret Necessary Outsider
It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Actor Become Get Home Influence Out Part
Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Author Bit Bore Education Learn Play School
If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Actor Fodder Great Meet Opportunity Someone Stuff You
On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Give Gonna Lose Man Point Sunday Win
To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Country Obvious Really Shoulder Somebody Something Strap Throw
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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Actors Character Everything Perceive Play Relation Seen Thing World
Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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Actor Author Feeling Joy Person Read Reason Stay
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Always Believe Character Express Film Humanity More Opportunity Person Really Something Try Write
There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Close Closer Enemy Father Friend Keep Many Room Taught Thing
Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Attach Encourage Interest Project Studio
The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Do Go Life Made Movie Need Reason Vary Way Work
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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Another Beyond Find Genuflect Higher Obe Pedestal Use Used Way Woman
All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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Dancer Due Respect Try Modest
I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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All Boggles Great Leave Probably Speech Understand Written
In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Bit Country Dose Everybody Except Full Half Little Mostly
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
The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Act Demand Different Experience More Stage Through
What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Do Else Endure Got Instrument Something Talent
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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Advice Careful Kid Mantra Person Want
I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Actor Age Away Fade Hear Like Old Retire Shock Soldier

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