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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

Al Pacino

“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Always Catch Do Sleep Try
I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Actor Decide Great Philosophy Someday Use Want
You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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After Anybody Film Less Movie Onstage Over Together Until You
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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Actor Air Country Great Name Once Play Show Sleep Stage Summer
Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Book Coast College East Lot Person Poetry Present Show Tour Write Year
I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Maid Out Paper Scrap Threw
Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Able Actor Always Become Destroy Famous Get Interpret Necessary Outsider
I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Author Certain Do Feel Way
Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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Actor Air Always Big Certain Come Deal Era Movie
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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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Always Bad Carpet Day Meet Other People Red Thought
I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Almost Become Get Know Mode Painter Script Work
[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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Audience Large Much Presentation Satisfy Vision World
If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Age Artist Day Hate One Painter Question
Without coffee something’s missing
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Coffee Miss Something
The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

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