Vanity: my favorite sin.
AL PACINOI never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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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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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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