My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
AL PACINOIt 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 probably write a poem every 50 years.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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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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 wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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