Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
AL PACINOTheir minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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