Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
AL PACINOIt’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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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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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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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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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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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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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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.
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