The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
AL PACINOI’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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 what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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