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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.

Al Pacino

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Baseball Enough Good Kid Natural Player Want
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Act Always Even Lie Truth
We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Ago Beach Coffee Hundred Ocean People Remember Saw Scarface
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
Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Anybody Important Writer
[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 was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Actor Age Away Fade Hear Like Old Retire Shock Soldier
Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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All Critic Fel Kind Objection Right Sometimes Time Way Wrong
They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Academy Award Bad Feel Good Made Pretty
I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Another Beyond Find Genuflect Higher Obe Pedestal Use Used Way Woman
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
I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Loud Movie Play Read Record Script Some Together
Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Around Do Dub Finally Line Loop Over Wait
Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Believe Comedy Comic Myself People Saw Stand Start Tell Them Up
To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Fact Love Man Matter Truly Woman
I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Being Country Emotion Guess Outgoing Tradition

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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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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