You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Many 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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