I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
AL PACINOThat’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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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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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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