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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

Al Pacino

It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Act Do Older Realize Really Something Until
And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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Do Lot Material Much Right Sometimes Thing Think
If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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All Get Just Tangled Tango
I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Baby Country Feeling Little Paper Poem Something Spectacular Throw Wrote
My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Come Euthanasia Something Weakness Wish
You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Come Finally Friend Point Women
The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Act Ever First Forty Physical Shock Terrible Think Thnk Young
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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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Extent Feeling Prefer Show Some Thought Time
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
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
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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