I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOI learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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