I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
AL PACINOAnd then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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