A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINOSometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I’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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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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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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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