Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
AL PACINOLove goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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