Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
AL PACINOGrease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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