I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
AL PACINOWhen [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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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 used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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[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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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