I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
AL PACINOI 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 was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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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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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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