To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINOWe were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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I 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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