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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.

Al Pacino

On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Give Gonna Lose Man Point Sunday Win
There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Actor Do Get Healthy Out Repeat Something Young
I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Actor Disappointment Expect Great Opportunity Think Too
You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Agree Conversation Crazy Everybody Hear Something Tell Totally Want
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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Actor Air Country Great Name Once Play Show Sleep Stage Summer
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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Career Do Feel Forget Go Happen Line Someplace Thing Vision Work
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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Do Else Endure Got Instrument Something Talent
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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Age Change Everything Feeling Part Play Role Ten Want Year
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Character Part Play Relative Responsibility Script
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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Body Breath Die Know Last Leaver Name Once Person Say Twice
Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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Back Drink Life Part Remember Smok
I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Always Country Display Emotion Have Person Temperament Tradition Violent
I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Exhaust Found Lot Out Took Way
A lot of acting is private time.
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Act Lot Private Time
Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.

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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.

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