So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
AL PACINOMy grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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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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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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[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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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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