I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
AL PACINOI’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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It 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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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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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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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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