I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
AL PACINOI destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Either I act or I die.
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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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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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