Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
AL PACINOThey made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I 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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I 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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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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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.
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