It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
AL PACINOSometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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