The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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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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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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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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