To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINOI go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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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.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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 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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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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