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.
AL PACINOOr 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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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 used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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