There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
AL PACINOSo I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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 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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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