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.
AL PACINOI went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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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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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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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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