I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
AL PACINOWhen my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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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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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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