Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
AL PACINOWhat 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 found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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