If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
AL PACINOI do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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 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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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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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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 used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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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 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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