It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
AL PACINOThere 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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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 play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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