Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
AL PACINODid you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Either I act or I die.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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