The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
AL PACINOBrian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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