So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
AL PACINOA lot of acting is private time.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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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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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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