I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
AL PACINOI’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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