I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINOWe live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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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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