It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
AL PACINOActually, 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.
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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 had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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