When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
AL PACINOI do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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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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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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