Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
AL PACINOThe thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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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.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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 did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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