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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

Al Pacino

When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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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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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Bad Big Payday Script Show
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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

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