Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
AL PACINOA lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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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 always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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