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.
AL PACINOMy dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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 found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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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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