It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
AL PACINOSo I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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 have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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.
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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 watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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