The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
AL PACINOIt 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 did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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