Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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