The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
AL PACINOI’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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