On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
AL PACINOThat was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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