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.
AL PACINOIt’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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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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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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