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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.

Al Pacino

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Actor Athlete Become Emotional
The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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Before Express Get Guess Myself Problem Sense Talk With
Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Able Actor Always Become Destroy Famous Get Interpret Necessary Outsider
It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Act Do Older Realize Really Something Until
Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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Country History Know Look Take Terrorist
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
Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Anybody Care Do Risk Take
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Age Artist Far Hate Life Lot Thing Work
You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Audition Got Opportunity Thing Think
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
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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Interweavemoscar Journey Sort Story Take Thing Wide
I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Baseball Enough Good Kid Natural Player Want
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
I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Maid Out Paper Scrap Threw
My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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All Being Feel Known Movie People Play Stuff Television Well
Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Attach Encourage Interest Project Studio
The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Build Camera Capture Face Movie Soul
I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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Away Curiosity Daughter Know Long Oldest Run
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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Day Everything Home Life Picture Problem Really Remember Say Shed
The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Before Fall Fruit Ready Shake Tree
“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Always Catch Do Sleep Try
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Different Dream Imagine Realize Sometimes Start Thing Vision Word World
I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Character Everything Get Pick Pool Pursue Something Wrong
I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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Ask Change Daughter Name Oldest Once School Thought
I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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Back Cop Deal Escape Happen My Responsibility Stage Success Way
The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Ball Give Only Order Thing World
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

I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.

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