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.
AL PACINOAnd I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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