There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
AL PACINOEither I act or I die.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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