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.
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 wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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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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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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 don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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