I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
AL PACINOReally, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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 fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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