I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
AL PACINOIt’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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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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