I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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