I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
AL PACINOThe interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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You 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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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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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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