I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINOReally, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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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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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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