[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.
AL PACINOI probably write a poem every 50 years.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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