Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
AL PACINOThe 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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[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 physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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 actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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