I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
AL PACINOI’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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