Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
AL PACINOI was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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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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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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