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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.

Al Pacino

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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