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 PACINOI probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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