“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
AL PACINOBeing the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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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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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Waiting 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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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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