I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
AL PACINOI’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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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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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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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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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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