I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
AL PACINOTo me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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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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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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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.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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