Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
AL PACINOMy early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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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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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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