You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
AL PACINOI’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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