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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.

Al Pacino

There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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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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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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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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