On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
AL PACINOSometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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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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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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When 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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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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