We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
AL PACINOI’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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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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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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