Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
AL PACINOThe 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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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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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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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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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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