I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
AL PACINOI’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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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 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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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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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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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