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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

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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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 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
It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Act Do Older Realize Really Something Until
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
Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Afterward Express Question Read Talk Therapeutic Time
I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Destroy Make Out Paint Something Soon Unconscious
There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Honesty People Reality Sense Strong
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Audition Only Sometimes Way
I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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Assemble Care Fact Gun Learn Scent Woman
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Act Always Even Lie Truth
I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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Anything Happen Nothing Salacious Trust Way Written
There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Analyse Colossally Fail Failure Kind Learn Movie Something
I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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Care Drug Most Needle never People Saw
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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Country Cut Direction Early Movie Narrator Play Radio Read Show Stage Tape
We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Anodynes Day Help Life Park Realize Stuff Through Want
Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Anybody Important Writer
My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Cope First Have Language Learn Limelight Only Shy Thrust
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
Either I act or I die.
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Act Die Either
I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Actor More Often Said Shy Two Type
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
Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Look Swallow Taste Touch
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
Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Bad Big Payday Script Show
In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Bit Country Dose Everybody Except Full Half Little Mostly
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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