I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
AL PACINOWe 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 had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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