Vanity is my favourite sin.
AL PACINOWhether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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