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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.

Al Pacino

I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Good Happen Like Live Negative People Speak Very Way Young
I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Book Fifteen Knew Least Natural Twenty Want Year
There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Concentration Happy No Only
I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Come Euthanasia Something Weakness Wish
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Character Feel Illusion Much Persson Play Too
[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Autobiographical Guess House Kid Oscar Sense Stuff
There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Actor Athlete Become Emotional
Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Close Grandfather Kind Like People Relationship
When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Act Back Camera Give Keep never Talk When
Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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Back Drink Life Part Remember Smok
I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Every Fifty Poem Probably Writing Year
There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Always Especially Found Movie Much Want Way Younger
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’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Ask Pause Probably Same Strength Thing
Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Ability Detect Exceed Fraud Manufacture Reality Truth
All I am is what I’m going after.
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After All Go
Without coffee something’s missing
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Coffee Miss Something
It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Anyway Around Early Fun Good Morning Much Really Time
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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Believe Discren Do Hard Like Percentage Television World

When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.

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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.

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