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AL PACINOI’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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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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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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[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.
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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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