I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
AL PACINOThere has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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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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