The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
AL PACINOIt’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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 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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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