We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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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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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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