What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINOI was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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 was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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