I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
AL PACINOI understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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