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.
AL PACINOShakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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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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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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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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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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