I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
AL PACINOMy own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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“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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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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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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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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The 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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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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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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