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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.

Al Pacino

Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Anybody Care Do Risk Take
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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Audience Challenge Make Opportunity Play Possible Something Uncomfortable
I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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Anything Character Feel Like Made Mistake Regret
My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Grandfather Joy Kind Life Provider Work
All I am is what I’m going after.
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After All Go
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Always Believe Character Express Film Humanity More Opportunity Person Really Something Try Write
You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Boy Bullet Fast Go Head Hell Over Sense Wake
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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Do Lot Material Much Right Sometimes Thing Think
They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Body Breath Die Know Last Leaver Name Once Person Say Twice
I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Actor Disappointment Expect Great Opportunity Think Too
I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Day Everything Home Life Picture Problem Really Remember Say Shed
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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Alive Come Director Great Pace Scene Stag Understand Way
A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Bath Good One Warm Whatever You
[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Ballplayer Be Film Four Great Want
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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Confuse Corner Deal Dope Guy Look Part Play Real Someone Street
A lot of acting is private time.
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Act Lot Private Time
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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Cut Direction Door Evocative First Hear Open Stage Thing Visualize Walk
I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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Actors Character Everything Perceive Play Relation Seen Thing World
Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Anything Opinion Personal Life
Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Challenge Either Heal Individual Team
Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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Crap Hurt Let Love Romantic Tell Through
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Author Be Interest Movie Role Script Would
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Alive Anywhere Else More Street Take Theater
[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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Great Group Kid Ocean Opportunity Thirteen Work
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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Destroy Make Out Paint Something Soon Unconscious
A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Actor Choose Cut Door Lot Much Party Read Script
What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Do Else Endure Got Instrument Something Talent

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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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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