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  • The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Risk Quotes , Acting Quotes
  • The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Acting Quotes
  • Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Arkin Quotes , Trying Quotes , Acting Quotes
  • When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Despair Quotes , Acting Quotes