“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
AL PACINO[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I’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 did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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