I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
AL PACINOI went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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 think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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