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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.

Al Pacino

My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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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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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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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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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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