Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINOI learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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