My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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