Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
AL PACINOIt’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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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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