Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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 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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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal 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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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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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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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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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