Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
AL PACINOIt would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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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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 probably write a poem every 50 years.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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 did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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