Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
AL PACINOSo I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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The 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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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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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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