It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Either I act or I die.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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