There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
AL PACINOI was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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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 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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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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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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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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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