At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
AL PACINOI 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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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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