I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
AL PACINORomantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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