Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
AL PACINOWhen I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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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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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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