Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
AL PACINOI was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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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 wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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