I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
AL PACINOI always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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 don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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