Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
AL PACINOI understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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 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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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