Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINOThere are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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