You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
AL PACINOGreat 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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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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