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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

Al Pacino

It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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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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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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 picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I 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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