I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
AL PACINOYou 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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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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