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.
AL PACINOI’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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