I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
AL PACINOIs it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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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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[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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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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