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 just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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