I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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