I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
AL PACINOReally, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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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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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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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