Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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 come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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.
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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’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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