Either I act or I die.
AL PACINOI thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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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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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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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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