Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINOI thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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