Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
AL PACINOWhen my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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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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Either I act or I die.
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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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