I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
AL PACINOI would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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