I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOI 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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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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