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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.

Al Pacino

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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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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