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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.

Al Pacino

What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Between Person Theatre Thing
I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Almost Become Get Know Mode Painter Script Work
There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Business Dream Heartbreak Humor Real Sense Survive Think
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Character Part Play Relative Responsibility Script
I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Confuse Corner Deal Dope Guy Look Part Play Real Someone Street
We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Anodynes Day Help Life Park Realize Stuff Through Want
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
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
After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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After Close Hell One Real Slomaybe Thing Think Use
I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Baby Country Feeling Little Paper Poem Something Spectacular Throw Wrote
I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Anything Express Expression Look Person Philosophy Politics Talk Work
The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Actor Athlete Become Emotional
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
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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Character Feel Illusion Much Persson Play Too
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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Film First Lot Made Movie One Time Turn
My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Grandfather Joy Kind Life Provider Work

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