What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINOWhen you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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To 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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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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