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.
AL PACINOMan is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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 was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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