Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
AL PACINOWe start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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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