There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
AL PACINOMany years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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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 naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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