You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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