I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
AL PACINOSometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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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