There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
AL PACINOI was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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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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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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