You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINOWhen you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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.
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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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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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