The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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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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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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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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 once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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