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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.

Al Pacino

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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