All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
AL PACINOI didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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 had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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