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.
AL PACINOIf something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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 do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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