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.
AL PACINOIt 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 go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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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’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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