I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
AL PACINOThey made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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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 thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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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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