Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
AL PACINOI 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 don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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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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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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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 destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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