My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
AL PACINOIt’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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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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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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