I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
AL PACINOMy 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.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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