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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.

Al Pacino

The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Actor Director Filmmaker Journey Person Play Story Struggle
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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Ask Change Daughter Name Oldest Once School Thought
Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Actor Big Healthy Learn Repeat Thin Think Trade
I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Afterward Feel Gold Guess Medal Now Olympic Oscar Week Win
I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Concern Demand Different Go Movie Play
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Anything Express Expression Look Person Philosophy Politics Talk Work
I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Actor Dream Journalist Real Stuff Theatre Tomorrow
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
Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Inspirational Person Play Scarface Violent
You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Boy Bullet Fast Go Head Hell Over Sense Wake
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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