I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
AL PACINOI 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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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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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.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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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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