There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
AL PACINOThe 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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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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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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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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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