Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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