I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
AL PACINOAll I am is what I’m going after.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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Jamie 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.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I 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.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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