I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
AL PACINOI found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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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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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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