When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
AL PACINOIt was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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