I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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