It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
AL PACINOSo I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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 would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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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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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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