What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINOIt would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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[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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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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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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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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