There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
AL PACINOShakespeare 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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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