Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINOIt’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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