I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
AL PACINO[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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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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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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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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