When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
AL PACINOWhat kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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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 didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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