I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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 think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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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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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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