I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
AL PACINOThe camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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 say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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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.
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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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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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