Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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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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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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