[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 picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I 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.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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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’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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