Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
AL PACINOI was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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