My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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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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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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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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