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.
AL PACINOWhen I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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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 like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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