Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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