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.
AL PACINOSometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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