[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
AL PACINOOn any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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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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