The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
AL PACINOThere was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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