The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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 would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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