Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
AL PACINOA lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Either I act or I die.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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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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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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