My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
AL PACINOI’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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 probably write a poem every 50 years.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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