Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
AL PACINOI guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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