Vanity: my favorite sin.
AL PACINOTheir minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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