It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
AL PACINOEarly on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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