It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
AL PACINOI’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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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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Either I act or I die.
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