Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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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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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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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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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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