I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
AL PACINOI go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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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.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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 picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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