The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
AL PACINOAt 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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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