I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
AL PACINOThere was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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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 thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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