Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
AL PACINOJamie 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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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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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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