When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
AL PACINOWhat kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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It’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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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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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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