I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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