And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
AL PACINOJamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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