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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Al Pacino

There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Business Dream Heartbreak Humor Real Sense Survive Think
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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Actor Fodder Great Meet Opportunity Someone Stuff You
There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Actor Air Country Great Name Once Play Show Sleep Stage Summer
All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Be Dance Due Modest Respect Star Think
I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Become Keep Love Otherwise Perspective Preoccupation Sex Work
Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Anybody Care Do Risk Take
Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Bad Big Payday Script Show
A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Desire Dessert Dollop Kiss Lusty Passion Savor Serve
There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Close Closer Enemy Father Friend Keep Many Room Taught Thing
I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Actor Dream Journalist Real Stuff Theatre Tomorrow
It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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Also Bizzare Childish Diabolical Drab Enrich Excite Illuminate Joyful Responsible
I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Actual Attention Audience Costume Figure Long Look Play Robe
A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Actor Choose Cut Door Lot Much Party Read Script
It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Business Personal Strict
Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Children Exposure Name Pretty Soon Start Worry
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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Alive Come Director Great Pace Scene Stag Understand Way

[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

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