So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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