My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
AL PACINOIt was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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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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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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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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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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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