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.
AL PACINOA lot of acting is private time.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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