Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
AL PACINOIs it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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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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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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