[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 PACINOI 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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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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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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