Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
AL PACINOA lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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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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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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