[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
AL PACINOI wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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