Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
AL PACINOGreat directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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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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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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