I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOWhat 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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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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.
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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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