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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

Al Pacino

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
So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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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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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Maid Out Paper Scrap Threw
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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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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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
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
A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Actor Choose Cut Door Lot Much Party Read Script
Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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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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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

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