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Great 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.

Al Pacino

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Character Part Play Relative Responsibility Script
Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Career Do Feel Forget Go Happen Line Someplace Thing Vision Work
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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Act Ever First Forty Physical Shock Terrible Think Thnk Young
They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Cost Dreams Make Nothing Priceless Real
You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Agree Conversation Crazy Everybody Hear Something Tell Totally Want
You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Alone Book Got never
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Act Always Even Lie Truth
I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Believe Day Go One Time Today
So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Being Close Do Everything Kid Next Them
The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Before Fall Fruit Ready Shake Tree
Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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Cause Effect Grew Person Powerful Rebel Relate Thing
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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Alive Anywhere Else More Street Take Theater
[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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Act Actor Another Every Giant Great Land Level People Planet Produce
I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Exhaust Found Lot Out Took Way
When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Audience Back Come Extraordinary Thing Giving Perform You
There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Honesty People Reality Sense Strong
Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Anybody Care Do Risk Take
[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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Great Group Kid Ocean Opportunity Thirteen Work
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Age Artist Far Hate Life Lot Thing Work
Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Alter Always Equal Importance Issue Onstage Problem Sensibility Sensitive Women Working
[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Autobiographical Guess House Kid Oscar Sense Stuff
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Audition Only Sometimes Way
I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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All Comedy Help Movie Put
Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Close Grandfather Kind Like People Relationship
The 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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Actor Between Buy Difference Early Morning Order Painter Somebody Spend Time Waiting Watch
I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Being Communicate Exercise Express Feel Help Human Movie Something
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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Do Lot Material Much Right Sometimes Thing Think

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