Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
AL PACINOBeing the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Either I act or I die.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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