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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

So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Being Close Do Everything Kid Next Them
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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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Better Bug Little People Than Thing Upset You
I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Ask College Film Get Great Home Location Music People Person Restaurant Therapy
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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Believe Discren Do Hard Like Percentage Television World
I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Almost Become Get Know Mode Painter Script Work
A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Desire Dessert Dollop Kiss Lusty Passion Savor Serve
Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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Actor Do Get Healthy Out Repeat Something Young
Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Found Kind Off Out Put Sometimes Temperamental

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