A lot of acting is private time.
AL PACINOActors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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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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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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