What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
AL PACINO[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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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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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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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