There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
AL PACINOThat’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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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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.
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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 hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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