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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

Al Pacino

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
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 don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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Anything Character Feel Like Made Mistake Regret
That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Always Body Felt Humour Kind Like Person Stuff
A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Actor Choose Cut Door Lot Much Party Read Script
There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Dishonest Hey Natural Time Way Women
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
[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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Audience Large Much Presentation Satisfy Vision World
I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Ebnergy Fairty Go Happu Kid Kind Life With
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
There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Actor Air Country Great Name Once Play Show Sleep Stage Summer
If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Actor Fodder Great Meet Opportunity Someone Stuff You
What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Failure Kind Misunderstood Other Yourself
Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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Back Drink Life Part Remember Smok
Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Always Early Even Fail Failure Felt Kind Misunderstood On
All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Be Dance Due Modest Respect Star Think

I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

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