I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
AL PACINOCertainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in 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 like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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