Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
AL PACINOI was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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 found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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