There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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 always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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