I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
AL PACINOI’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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