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.
AL PACINOPeople are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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 do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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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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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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