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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.

Al Pacino

There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Honesty People Reality Sense Strong
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
Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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Back Drink Life Part Remember Smok
I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Interest Interview Much Part Want Well
I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Book Fifteen Knew Least Natural Twenty Want Year
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Accept Art High Level Perform Scholastic School
I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Author Certain Do Feel Way
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 like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Enjoy Frank Help Instance Like Play Real Script Serpico
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
My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Children Feel Humble Make Pretty Quick Reject
I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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Actors Character Everything Perceive Play Relation Seen Thing World
It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Close Compromise Down Help Line Memoir Read Sense Some Write
If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Fix Glow Go Keep Something Work
What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Do Else Endure Got Instrument Something Talent
I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Become Keep Love Otherwise Perspective Preoccupation Sex Work

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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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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