The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
AL PACINOAt 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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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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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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