A lot of acting is private time.
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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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