I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINORomantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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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’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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