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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?

Al Pacino

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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Another Beyond Find Genuflect Higher Obe Pedestal Use Used Way Woman
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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After Dad Grandfather Maternal Mother Raise Real War
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
I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Better Done Get Much Naturally Shy Think
It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Actor Become Influence Tremendous
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
We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Live More Thing Work Workaday World
I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Believe Day Go One Time Today
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
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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Act Always Comedy Country Felt Help More Movie Much Style
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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Audience Learn Make See Something Try
[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Autobiographical Guess House Kid Oscar Sense Stuff
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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Advice Careful Kid Mantra Person Want
You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Cash Puttin Register Say Sudden Talk
So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Always Certain Grew Relationship Something Want Work
If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Age Artist Day Hate One Painter Question

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