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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.

Al Pacino

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’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Dark Everywhere Go Shy Sunglass Wear
[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Act Actor Another Every Giant Great Land Level People Planet Produce
When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Great Happen Play Read Some Something Talk Writer
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Back Bring Earth Like Literal Magnet Stage Thing
In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Bit Country Dose Everybody Except Full Half Little Mostly
I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Actor Age Away Fade Hear Like Old Retire Shock Soldier
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
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’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Break Constant New Something Strive Through Try
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
Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Favorite Sin Vanity
It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Actor Become Get Home Influence Out Part
Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Children Exposure Name Pretty Soon Start Worry
When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Course Kind Kindm Ride Movie Pair Passage Sex Star Think Younger
I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Always Especially Found Movie Much Want Way Younger

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