Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINOOne of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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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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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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 always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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