The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
AL PACINOAn actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Either I act or I die.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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