When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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 would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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