Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINOThere has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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