The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
AL PACINOYou 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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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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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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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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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 didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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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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