I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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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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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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