I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
AL PACINOThat’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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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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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 think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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