Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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’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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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