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[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.

Al Pacino

You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Audition Got Opportunity Thing Think
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
There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Concentration Happy No Only
Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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Actor Author Feeling Joy Person Read Reason Stay
Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Attach Encourage Interest Project Studio
That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Always Body Felt Humour Kind Like Person Stuff
I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Day Everything Home Life Picture Problem Really Remember Say Shed
Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Afterward Express Question Read Talk Therapeutic Time
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
Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Anything Opinion Personal Life
I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Happy Much Perform Turn Very
Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Always Early Even Fail Failure Felt Kind Misunderstood On
You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Alone Book Got never
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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Age Defensive Down Fall Fight Hit Learn Someone Throw Up Wrestler Young
Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Children Exposure Name Pretty Soon Start Worry
I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Actor Dream Journalist Real Stuff Theatre Tomorrow

[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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