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.
AL PACINOWhen my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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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.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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