There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
AL PACINOI’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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 guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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.
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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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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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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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