Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
AL PACINOBeing the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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