I probably write a poem every 50 years.
AL PACINOI went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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