I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
AL PACINOMy children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I’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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