I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
AL PACINOI had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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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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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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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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