Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
AL PACINOI was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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When 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 always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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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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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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