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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.

Al Pacino

We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Live More Thing Work Workaday World
When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Audience Back Come Extraordinary Thing Giving Perform You
I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Along Artist Great Paint People Remind Sense Something
Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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All Career Cop Ealy Flee People Remember Run
I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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Actors Character Everything Perceive Play Relation Seen Thing World
What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Between Person Theatre Thing
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Actor Ever Gull Made One Play Sea Thing Want
There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Close Closer Enemy Father Friend Keep Many Room Taught Thing
It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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Also Bizzare Childish Diabolical Drab Enrich Excite Illuminate Joyful Responsible
Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Look Swallow Taste Touch
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Act Always Even Lie Truth
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
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Accept Art High Level Perform Scholastic School
Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Alone Director Forgot Represent Stand Surf Wait
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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Alive Come Director Great Pace Scene Stag Understand Way
The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Better Bug Little People Than Thing Upset You

I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.

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