When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINOIf I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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