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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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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 put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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