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 PACINOYou’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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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