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.
AL PACINOYou’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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