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.
AL PACINOTheir minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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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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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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