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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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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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