I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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