At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
AL PACINOI was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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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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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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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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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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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