Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
AL PACINOFrancis 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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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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