I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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