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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 was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Happy Much Perform Turn Very
And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Back Cut First Later Listen Movie Play Rough Sort
Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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After Dad Grandfather Maternal Mother Raise Real War
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
You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Done Get Go Great Guy Magic Out Thing
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
What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Between Person Theatre Thing
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
I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Come Destroy Longer Unconcious
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
I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Always Cope Flee Gone Run Career Theatre Wa
So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Always Certain Grew Relationship Something Want Work
I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Award Bad Feel Good Make Pretty Win
I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Discourage Encourage Idea Own Real Way
It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Around Believe Boring Funny Get Insufferbly Into Make Movie People Waiting
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

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