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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

Al Pacino

They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Body Breath Die Know Last Leaver Name Once Person Say Twice
I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Actual Attention Audience Costume Figure Long Look Play Robe
I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Ask Pause Probably Same Strength Thing
I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Deep Long People Period Relationship Time
Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Career Do Feel Forget Go Happen Line Someplace Thing Vision Work
I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Charlatan Experience Feel Long People Play Scene Stuff Way
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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Always Certain Grew Relationship Something Want Work
Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Afterward Express Question Read Talk Therapeutic Time
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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Actor All Day Found Keep Later Lighter Serious Try Younger
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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

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