Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
AL PACINOTo me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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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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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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