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.
AL PACINOLook, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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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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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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