I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
AL PACINOLearning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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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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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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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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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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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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