After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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