I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
AL PACINOMy early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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 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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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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