We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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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.
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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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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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