The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
AL PACINOAnd 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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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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