The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINOAt one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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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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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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