When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINOI found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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