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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.

Al Pacino

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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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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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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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.

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