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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.

Al Pacino

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Admire Always Comedian Myself People Think
The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Count Doubt Instead Mind Month Personally Play Think Week
Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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Cost Dreams Make Nothing Priceless Real
Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Around Care Live People Way
They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Anybody Important Writer
The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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