[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
AL PACINOWhen my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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