The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
AL PACINOGrease 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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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