I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
AL PACINOYou don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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