My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
AL PACINORomantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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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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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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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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