I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
AL PACINOFreedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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