Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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 picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Either I act or I die.
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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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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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