All I am is what I’m going after.
AL PACINOI 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 am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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 don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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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