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.
AL PACINOOur life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Their 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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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