“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
AL PACINOWe were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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