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.
AL PACINOYou could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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