What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINOWaiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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