If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINOI do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I 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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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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