I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
AL PACINOWhen 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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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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The 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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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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