Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
AL PACINOWhen I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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 had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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