I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
AL PACINOThere are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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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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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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