It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
AL PACINOI’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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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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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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