Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
AL PACINOYou’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help 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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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.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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