You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
AL PACINOAt one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I 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 just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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