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.
AL PACINOThe fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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 don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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