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 PACINOWhen you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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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 understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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