I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
AL PACINOOne of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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