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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.

Al Pacino

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Artist Play Temperament Think
I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Afterward Feel Gold Guess Medal Now Olympic Oscar Week Win
I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Actor Dream Journalist Real Stuff Theatre Tomorrow
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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Always Crazy Famous Hard Nice People Thing
I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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Back Cop Deal Escape Happen My Responsibility Stage Success Way
I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Actor Heart Help Hollywood Pool Shape Star Swim
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Alive Anywhere Else More Street Take Theater
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’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Deep Long People Period Relationship Time
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
I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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All Boggles Great Leave Probably Speech Understand Written
Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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Doe Gift Good Instrument Kind Long Mimicry Person Real Redeition Talent Thing Tonal
There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Doubt Event Life Self Unwelcome
I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Controversy Feel Go Person Provoke Risk Something Take Wherever
Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Anybody Care Do Risk Take
[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Act Actor Another Every Giant Great Land Level People Planet Produce

I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.

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