You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINOYou don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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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. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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 found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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