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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.

Al Pacino

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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Honesty People Reality Sense Strong
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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Around Care Live People Way
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Do Go Life Made Movie Need Reason Vary Way Work
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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Actor All Day Found Keep Later Lighter Serious Try Younger
I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Always Body Felt Humour Kind Like Person Stuff
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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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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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.

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