Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
AL PACINOI 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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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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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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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