I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
AL PACINOMy early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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