I probably write a poem every 50 years.
AL PACINOThe difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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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 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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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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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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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I 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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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