A lot of acting is private time.
AL PACINOOn any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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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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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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