It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
AL PACINOOne of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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