Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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