I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
AL PACINOEither I act or I die.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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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 like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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