Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
AL PACINOI’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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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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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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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 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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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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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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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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