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.
AL PACINOI’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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