I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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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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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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