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.
AL PACINOI 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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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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