Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
AL PACINO“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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