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.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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