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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.

Al Pacino

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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Act All Care Do Repeat Result Risk Think Yourself
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’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Break Constant New Something Strive Through Try
If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Contribute Exercise Feel Find Mean Role Something Though Way
Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Great Maybe Script Some Something Television
I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Award Bad Feel Good Make Pretty Win
I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Age Defensive Down Fall Fight Hit Learn Someone Throw Up Wrestler Young
That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Act Anything Else First Physical Struck Thing
I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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Descendant Grew Integrate Life Melt MIxed Neighbourhood Pot Really Up
You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Know Mouth never Open Shot Until
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
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
We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Ago Beach Coffee Hundred Ocean People Remember Saw Scarface
Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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All Critic Fel Kind Objection Right Sometimes Time Way Wrong
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Accept Art High Level Perform Scholastic School
It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Close Compromise Down Help Line Memoir Read Sense Some Write

We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.

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