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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

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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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

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I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.

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You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

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A lot of acting is private time.

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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." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.

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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. 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. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.

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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

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They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. 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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It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

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I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

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