Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
AL PACINOIs 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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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’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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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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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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