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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

Al Pacino

Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Author Bit Bore Education Learn Play School
It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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Learn Much People Use Way Worry
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
[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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Always Cope Flee Gone Run Career Theatre Wa
I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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Ask Change Daughter Name Oldest Once School Thought
When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Audience Back Come Extraordinary Thing Giving Perform You
The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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Anodynes Bath Need Some Times Truth Word
[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Ballplayer Be Film Four Great Want
I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Dark Everywhere Go Shy Sunglass Wear
Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Careful Friend Judge Man Most People
I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Become Keep Love Otherwise Perspective Preoccupation Sex Work
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Actor Ever Gull Made One Play Sea Thing Want
I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Day Everything Home Life Picture Problem Really Remember Say Shed
My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Children Feel Humble Make Pretty Quick Reject
The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Ball Give Only Order Thing World
My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Grandfather Joy Kind Life Provider Work
At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Actor Air Flip Later Look Nowhere Out Point Robe Start Wear
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Actor Athlete Emotional Felt Life Painful Personal Suffer
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Always Believe Character Express Film Humanity More Opportunity Person Really Something Try Write
That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Always Body Felt Humour Kind Like Person Stuff
That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Act Anything Else First Physical Struck Thing
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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Interweavemoscar Journey Sort Story Take Thing Wide
A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Bath Good One Warm Whatever You
I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Happy Much Perform Turn Very
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
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Actor Between Buy Difference Early Morning Order Painter Somebody Spend Time Waiting Watch

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