Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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 I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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