My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
AL PACINOI guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I 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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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