I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
AL PACINOSo I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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 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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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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 had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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