I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
AL PACINOI’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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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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