I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
AL PACINOI didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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