I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
AL PACINOBrian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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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