Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
AL PACINOWhen 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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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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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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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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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