My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
AL PACINOMy dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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