The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINOPlaying a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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 didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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