I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINOI 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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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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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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