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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.

Al Pacino

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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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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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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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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