Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
AL PACINOIt wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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The 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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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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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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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’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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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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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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