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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

Al Pacino

Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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Feel Film Opportunity Say Something Thing
I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Baseball Enough Good Kid Natural Player Want
When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Audience Back Come Extraordinary Thing Giving Perform You
I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Actual Attention Audience Costume Figure Long Look Play Robe
I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Actor More Often Said Shy Two Type
I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Day Everything Home Life Picture Problem Really Remember Say Shed
I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Every Fifty Poem Probably Writing Year
If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Fix Glow Go Keep Something Work
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
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
Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Exact Same Sometimes Thing
Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Alter Always Equal Importance Issue Onstage Problem Sensibility Sensitive Women Working
I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Film First Lot Made Movie One Time Turn
What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Between Person Theatre Thing
[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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Audience Large Much Presentation Satisfy Vision World
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Author Be Interest Movie Role Script Would

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