My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
AL PACINOWhat he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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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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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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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