When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
AL PACINOI 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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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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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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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 was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I 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 found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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