My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
AL PACINOAnd I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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