The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
AL PACINOThe whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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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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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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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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