Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
AL PACINOWhat’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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