I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Either I act or I die.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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