Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINOAnd I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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