I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
AL PACINOYou sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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 think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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When 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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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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