When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
AL PACINOGrease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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