I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
AL PACINOI’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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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 could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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