I came across an interesting interview with Al Pacino. It makes good reading. The article first appeared in Esquire magazine. Below is the link: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/200...
Excerpts: =========================================================== "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. 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. It's like you've won a race and everybody knows you won. It's a wonderful feeling, a complete feeling. I wish I had better words for it." ... "I like to avoid the word perfection. There's the real apple. And then there's the apple that looks like the perfect apple. The problem is when you bite into the perfect apple, it doesn't have the taste or nourishment of the real apple."
"AFTER EVERY MOVIE, Humphrey Bogart - even at the end - was very worried he'd never get another part. If you don't get the job, there's no work, there's no outlet, there's no expression, there's no painting. You just live and hope that another day will come with a role that will serve as a canvas for you." ===========================================================
The article first appeared in Esquire magazine.
Below is the link:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/200...
Excerpts:
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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. 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. It's like you've won a race and everybody knows you won. It's a wonderful feeling, a complete feeling. I wish I had better words for it."
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"I like to avoid the word perfection. There's the real apple. And then there's the apple that looks like the perfect apple. The problem is when you bite into the perfect apple, it doesn't have the taste or nourishment of the real apple."
"AFTER EVERY MOVIE, Humphrey Bogart - even at the end - was very worried he'd never get another part. If you don't get the job, there's no work, there's no outlet, there's no expression, there's no painting. You just live and hope that another day will come with a role that will serve as a canvas for you."
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