I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
AL PACINOI just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Grease 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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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