I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
AL PACINOI understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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