Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINOI’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Either I act or I die.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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 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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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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