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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.

Al Pacino

I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Back Certain Comfortable Control Film Hold More Play Sense
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
sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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Angel Better Devil Know Sometimes
The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Build Camera Capture Face Movie Soul
It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Actor Become Get Home Influence Out Part
I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Better Done Get Much Naturally Shy Think
Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Able Actor Always Become Destroy Famous Get Interpret Necessary Outsider
The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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Deal Machine Movie Much Orchestrate Play Source Wire Word
I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Anything Express Expression Look Person Philosophy Politics Talk Work
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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Always Early Even Fail Failure Felt Kind Misunderstood On
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
I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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Away Curiosity Daughter Know Long Oldest Run
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
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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Baby Country Feeling Little Paper Poem Something Spectacular Throw Wrote
Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Great Maybe Script Some Something Television
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

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