I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
AL PACINOWhen [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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