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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.

Al Pacino

They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.

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