I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
AL PACINOI go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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.
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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 had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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