If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
AL PACINOI personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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 understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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When 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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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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