I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
AL PACINOThe fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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It 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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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 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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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