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.
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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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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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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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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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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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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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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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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