[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.
AL PACINOI haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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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 would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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