[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 PACINO“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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 did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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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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