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.
AL PACINOActually, 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 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’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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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’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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