The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
AL PACINOGrease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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 did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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