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.
AL PACINOEverything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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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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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 don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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