I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINOI destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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 personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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 thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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