So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
AL PACINOI’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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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 think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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 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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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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