Vanity is my favourite sin.
AL PACINOI don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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An 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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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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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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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