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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.

Al Pacino

On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Give Gonna Lose Man Point Sunday Win
In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Bit Country Dose Everybody Except Full Half Little Mostly
Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Children Exposure Name Pretty Soon Start Worry
Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Book Coast College East Lot Person Poetry Present Show Tour Write Year
Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Alter Always Equal Importance Issue Onstage Problem Sensibility Sensitive Women Working
I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Enjoy Frank Help Instance Like Play Real Script Serpico
My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Autobiography Celebrity Commitment Kind Life Own Term Thing
Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Exact Same Sometimes Thing
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
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
The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Actor Athlete Become Emotional
Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Actor Big Healthy Learn Repeat Thin Think Trade
Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Ability Detect Exceed Fraud Manufacture Reality Truth
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
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
I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Back Certain Comfortable Control Film Hold More Play Sense

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