I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
AL PACINOThey made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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 compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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