A lot of acting is private time.
AL PACINOAnybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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At 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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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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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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 story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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