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.
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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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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 would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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