I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
AL PACINOWhen 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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 hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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