Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
AL PACINOIf you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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