I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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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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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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