I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to 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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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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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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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