I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
AL PACINOThere are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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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