I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
AL PACINOIt surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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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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