It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
AL PACINOI destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Either I act or I die.
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