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.
AL PACINOWhat’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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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 used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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