Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
AL PACINOThe story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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