We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Really, 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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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express 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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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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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 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 was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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