The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
AL PACINOThere 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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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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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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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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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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