Vanity is my favourite sin.
AL PACINOI found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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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[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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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