“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
AL PACINOWhen [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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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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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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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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