Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
AL PACINOBeing the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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